From 2021 – 2023, I collaborated with chefs, Red Hook Farms, FIG and community partners to program free community lunches in Coffey Park in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Community Lunch was created to build community across identities with a priority focus on the residents who have been taking care, organizing, and holding down Red Hook for many years. Its fabric is made up of predominantly Black, Latinx, and Chinese residents in the neighboring NYCHA housing.
This event aims to work alongside and learn from the local organizations that have implemented solutions to food insecurity in an area that’s largely considered a food desert. We aim to contribute to their existing efforts aimed at achieving food sovereignty.
Everyone is welcome! We kindly ask you to take care when pulling up. Wait to get in line, introduce yourself to a stranger, make your neighbor a plate, and make space so there’s room for everybody.”
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2023: with FIG / ARV Kitchen and Yong Shin; Insa, Renae Wilson; Dear Henry, Phoebe Tran; Bé Bêp, Adama Kanazoe of Oze Cuisine and Queer Detainee Empowerment Project
2022: with FIG / 1:1 Foods and Chinchakriya Un; Kreung, Kyrelle Leefatt; 1:1 Foods, Gabriel Arvizu; Arvi Sweets, Naomi Santos; CENA
2021: with Jam’It Bistro, ediciones projects, Kit an Kin, HAGS
